Chemical for Kikuya grass

jbuckley – posted 04 June 2003 17:17

Can anyone recommend a good post emergence control for kikuya grass?

Dchall_San_Antonio – posted 28 June 2003 01:50

I could be wrong but don’t all the grass killers kill it?

jbuckley – posted 15 July 2003 16:06

The kikuya is mixed in with the rest of my lawn. I only want to get rid of the kikuya.

seed – posted 15 July 2003 21:05

jbuckley, I am not aware of any chemical for selective control or removal of kikuyugrass from turf. There was some work done at the University of California-Riverside, and I’ll try to look up the details, and I believe there were some cultural variables. Are you in California?

Phil in Florida

Dchall_San_Antonio – posted 17 July 2003 07:07

When I lived in California back in the 70s, the State of California had road crews going around the state planting kikuya by the roadsides to stop erosion. At the same time, they had crews going around the roads spraying to kill kikuya because it was growing out onto the streets.

Dchall_San_Antonio – posted 17 July 2003 11:43

I’ve never seen the grass at work, but I understand it is quite tenacious. Could you spot treat with RoundUp mixed with some molasses and then sod over it after a few weeks when you’re sure you got rid of it?

amays – posted 08 September 2003 12:16

It’s common practice where I live to just live with it. I am working on a project where we are just going ahead and planting kikuya, since that’s what it is going to turn into in ten years anyway.

As far as selectively removing it…yeah, you can try the roundup route. You will have dead spots that look terrible, until you overseed them.

If the infiltration is massive, then you may want to just get rid of the whole lawn and start over.

Just depends on what you can live with, and how much money you want to spend (or how much time and effort you can spare).

vision2020 – posted 03 April 2005 01:36

quote:Originally posted by jbuckley:The kikuya is mixed in with the rest of my lawn. I only want to get rid of the kikuya.

I was wondering if you got any answers to your question? I am having the same problem.Tanya

tommy – posted 07 April 2005 13:20

Use MSMA (crabgrass killer) for kikuyu control in other kinds of turf. (except St Augustine). It usually takes 3 applications (3 to 4 weeks apart) to get a good kill. It also needs to be done when the grass is actively growing.

andre – posted 17 October 2005 13:37

quote:Originally posted by jbuckley:Can anyone recommend a good post emergence control for kikuya grass?